Why are we so interested in groups, in cliques, in movements? Can we ever say that a group has a "life", like a single organism? Why are so many writers turning to this genre?
Then I began to see them everywhere, and started asking questions myself.
It was not until I finished writing The Lunar Men, about the 18th-century Lunar Society of Birmingham, that I was faced with queries about "group biographies". Maybe, but sometimes it feels like the opposite: we are asked so many questions that we are forced, sometimes uncomfortably, to look at what we are doing. Steven Poole wrote recently in these pages that biographers are always going on about their art, and are perhaps the only people interested.
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